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Council schedules earlier meetings By DONALD CAMPBELL Staff Writer
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Wickles Pickles, headquartered in Dadeville, has announced it is moving its production line back to Alabama from North Carolina. Co-owner Andy Anderson said the company’s new facility, located in Brundidge, southeast of Troy, has already begun production and sending Wickles products to stores.
Back in ’Bama Wickles Pickles production returning to facility in Alabama By DONALD CAMPBELL Staff Writer
W “Our plan is to see growth if all goes well. We also want to grow our line of products. We have several items in the works coming up. “ — Andy Anderson Wickles co-owner
ickles Pickles, founded in Dadeville in 1998, has grown into a huge success, with its products carried in stores across the country. While the company is headquartered here in Tallapoosa County, its pickles and relish have been produced at a facility in North Carolina for the past several years. Recently, however, it was announced Wickles’ production would be returning to Alabama at a facility in Brundidge. “We are really excited to be moving production back to Alabama,” Wickles co-owner Andy Anderson said. “We always wanted to do as much in Alabama as we could.” Anderson said not only are he and See WICKLES • Page A3
In a relatively uneventful final meeting of 2018, the Dadeville City Council voted Thursday to start its regularly scheduled meeting sessions 30 minutes earlier. Councilmember Teneeshia Goodman-Johnson asked if it would be possible to shift the start time of council meetings from 6 p.m. to 5:30 p.m., while moving the pre-council meeting from 5:30 to 5. None of the other councilmembers voiced any objection to the change and, after a motion was made, the council approved changing future meeting start times. In other highlights of the meeting: • Councilmember Brownie Caldwell said everything is business as usual for the city gas board. • Mayor Wayne Smith said he has been in contact with the property owner at 380 East LaFayette Street, who has said the site is almost clear, with only a couple of truckloads of material left to clean up. Smith also said another certified letter has been sent out regarding the property at 980 East LaFayette Street, as the individual who received the first letter has turned over his share of the property to some of the other inheritance claimants. • Things are proceeding cautiously on the new fire department building project, as the city is still getting prices on buildings. • Bids to refurbish the city’s four water tanks have been taken and opened, though all four bids came in over the amount of the loan the city received to complete the project. • Johnson said people have been asking her about the potential of a new grocery store coming to town. Smith said there are two potential prospects the city is currently in conversation with. Johnson also asked about a potential new appointment to the gas board with one of its members retiring. Caldwell said there are two names the board is looking at that could potentially be brought before the council at its next meeting. • Smith said he has talked to the manager at Fred’s regarding the large pothole in the store’s parking lot and, while it is not a city street, the city will continue to push for progress on this matter. • During the pre-council meeting, councilmember Roy Mathis said he received a call from someone about timber being cut and, if some of the smaller limbs and pieces were left, if it would fall under the city’s nuisance ordinance. See COUNCIL • Page A3
List of charges growing for suspect arrested in connection with Tallassee carjacking, sexual assault By CARMEN RODGERS Staff Writer
Authorities plan to add rape and sodomy charges to a list of felonies allegedly committed by a Notasulga man during a carjacking Sunday night, Tallassee police chief Matthew Higgins said Wednesday. Cobb Terrance Cobb, 20, was arrested early Monday morning and charged with first-degree kidnapping, first-degree robbery and discharging a firearm into an occupied vehicle after a suspect stole a
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vehicle at Victoryland Casino in Shorter, crashed into another vehicle in Tallassee, abducted the driver at gunpoint, commandeered her vehicle and sexually assaulted her before dropping her and her car off near a truck stop, Higgins said. “We will be signing rape and sodomy charges today,” Higgins said. The victim of the carjacking, a 68-yearold woman, remains hospitalized in Montgomery, Higgins said. See CARJACKING • Page A3
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Tallassee police said this vehicle was stolen from a casino in Macon County Sunday evening, then crashed into another vehicle in Tallassee. The suspect then abducted the driver and her car before leaving both near a truck stop back in Macon County and fleeing the scene.
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